Byron Dorgan
Byron Dorgan
Byron Leslie Dorganis a former United States Senator and United States Congressman from North Dakota and currently serves as a senior policy advisor for the Washington, DC law firm Arent Fox LLP. He served 12 years in the U.S. House and 18 years in the Senate. He was a member of the Senate Democratic leadership for 16 years, first as Assistant Democratic Floor Leader and then as Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee and Chairman of the Committee on Indian...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 May 1942
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They are ... profiting in an extraordinary way at the expense of the American consumer.
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This partnership borrowed over $110 million from a Canadian bank and that showed up booked as income to the company immediately, ... They were doing almost no business, but they manufactured income from a bank loan under their operative statement. That's the kind of thing that went on over and over and over again, shrouded in secrecy.
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This is a very positive step for our farmers and ranchers who are coping with losses from weather-related disasters.
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It's not too late to have adequate controls on that which is spent on the reconstruction and on the contracting in Iraq,
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It means, 'I'm taking a cut of this,'
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There's nothing normal or fair about any of these methods.
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Northwest is not a philanthropic organization - it has its own interests,
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I've always understood that appointments to the Supreme Court were for a lifetime, but an appointment to be independent counsel is not. It's time for this to end.
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These are the kinds of companies that want all the benefits of American citizenship and all the benefits from doing business with the federal government, but they don't want to bare the burden of the responsibilities of paying taxes to our government,
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The same folks who today defend high gasoline prices as the product of a free market said exactly the same thing about energy prices in the West when we now know ... Enron was manipulating the market at full throttle and reaping billions in profits.
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We don't make one pair of Levi's in the United States any more. Want to wear Tony Lama Boots? You're probably wearing Chinese boots. You want to eat Fig Newton cookies? You're eating a foreign product. Didn't used to be. It's Mexican now. We are seeing a wholesale movement away from this country of things that we make, products that we produce, that used to have attached to them good jobs for Americans.
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We're trying to get through all of this, to understand it, ... Northwest has been a good carrier for North Dakota for many decades, but they are dominant in our state, and so changes they make can have a profound impact on North Dakota and its economy.
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Seniors should not be coerced into an HMO in order to get drug coverage, ... Is the White House Backing Away from a Comprehensive Medicare Drug Benefit?
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None of us knows much about pricing, but we see the pain of consumers and we see the gains of the companies.